Uninstalling the IBM Connections Plug-in for Microsoft SharePoint
Deactivate the IBM® Connections features and uninstall the plug-in to remove it from Microsoft™ SharePoint.
About this task
Procedure
- To disable business card integration, remove the tags that
you added to your master page:
- Remove the tag for the IBM Connections
profile user control from the header of the page:
<%@ Register TagPrefix="Connections" tagname="ProfileScript" src="~/_controltemplates/ConnectionsProfileScript.ascx" %>
- Remove the IBM Connections
profile user control tag from the footer of the body of the master
page:
<Connections:ProfileScript ID="ConnProfileScript" runat="server"/>
- Remove the tag for the IBM Connections
profile user control from the header of the page:
- Deactivate the IBM Connections
features.Deactivate the IBM Connections Tag Cloud and Search IBM Connections Profiles features from all Site Collections. For a particular site, you can deactivate the features from Site Settings > Site Collection Administration > Site Collection Features. You can also deactivate features with the Disable-SPFeature command from the Management Shell. For more information, see the Microsoft documentation.
- Retract all IBM Connections
solutions from the Microsoft SharePoint
server farm.You must retract all IBM Connections plug-in solutions from the server farm. You can do this from the Central Administration site or from the Management Shell. Retract all ConnectionsPluginCore(<LCID>).wsp language pack solutions before you remove ConnectionsPluginCore.wsp. Refer to the Microsoft documentation for retracting solutions.
- Navigate to the folder where you extracted the plug-in
files for installation and run Uninstall.bat.
The uninstallation program removes all plug-in solutions and plug-in properties from the server farm. Uninstall information is logged to plugin directory\logs\uninstall-timestamp.log.